this comes from a top foreign policy advisor who was then provide to sudan for george w. bush and accused him of leaking to "new york times" reporter who wrote a book about mr. obama's foreign policy. carney said williamson based the claim on rumors. >> that same person called russia the soviet union multiple occasions and he called governor romney governor reagan and could not accurately or intelligently or coherently state a foreign policy difference between this president and the governor. >>reporter: the admiral who led the bin laden raid says that both the white house and capitol hill are taking the leaks very, very seriously and says they need to because the leak could cost lives. >>shepard: thank you from the white house. >> the labor department is reporting a steep drop in the number of americans applying for jobless benefits, down by 35,000 last week for 353,000. that is a new or nearly a now year lower but temperature factors could cause the dramatic ups and downs we have seen recently. and now to gerri, anchor of the willis report. how reliable are the numbers?